New store will provide local residents with more choices for affordable and healthy food

LOMA
LINDA, CA (March 12, 2014)
– Walmart today announced it will bring a new Neighborhood Market
to the City of Loma Linda. The store, set to open this summer in the
Center Point Shopping Center at the intersection of Barton Road and
Mountain View Avenue, will provide an anchor tenant for the center
and increase local offerings of fresh, affordable food.

The
new Walmart Neighborhood Market will be approximately 42,000 square
feet and employ about 65 associates. Walmart will be opening a hiring
center near the store location in the coming weeks.

“We
are excited to open a Walmart Neighborhood Market in Loma Linda. This
new, small-format store will offer our customers fresh and healthy
food choices, as well as a pharmacy, closer to where they live and
work,” said store manager Laura Barbosa.

Walmart
Neighborhood Markets feature a wide variety of products, including
fresh produce, deli foods, bakery items, household supplies and a
full-service pharmacy. First opened in 1998, Walmart operates about
300 Neighborhood Markets across the country, including about 30 in
California.

Foods
available at the Loma Linda Neighborhood Market will help further
Walmart’s effort to provide families with healthy food options they
can afford. In 2011, Walmart committed to make a difference on one
of the biggest issues facing American families: how to put healthier,
more affordable food on the dinner table each night. During the
first few years of Walmart’s healthier food initiative, the company
has made tremendous progress, including saving customers $2.3 billion
on fresh fruits and vegetables; providing more than $26 million to
support nutrition education programs; and reducing sugar and sodium
in Great Value brand products by 10 percent.

“We
are pleased to welcome Walmart’s new Neighborhood Market to Loma
Linda,” said Loma Linda Mayor Rhodes Rigsby. “Our people and our
health care institutions care a lot about promoting healthy living.
Walmart’s emphasis on quick, convenient shopping and providing
local access to affordable and healthy food will go a long way to
aiding in that effort.”

Through
its operations, Walmart also supports local businesses in the Inland
Empire. Last year, Walmart spent more than $1.1 billion dollars with
local suppliers in the region, helping support more than 13,500 jobs.

Walmart works with local produce suppliers
like Index Fresh, based out of Temecula, and Corona College Heights
of Riverside, to supply stores throughout California, including the
new Loma Linda Neighborhood Market, and the country with quality
avocados and citrus.

“I
am pleased to hear about the Neighborhood Market coming this summer
to our community,” said Phil Carlisle, CEO of the Loma Linda
Chamber of Commerce. “Not only will the store provide great jobs
for our residents, but it will give local families another option for
affordable groceries.”

Walmart
supports local charitable causes that are important to the
communities it serves. In FYE

2013,
Walmart contributed more than $3.5 million to charitable and civic
organizations that serve residents of the Inland Empire, including
providing a $10,000 grant to Loma Linda University Health for the
purchase of 350 blankets that were distributed to Cancer Center
patients. Local Walmart stores in the Inland Empire also donated more
than 1.3 million pounds of food to local hunger relief organizations.

The
new Neighborhood Market will also further Walmart’s sustainability
efforts, including energy-efficient technology and environmentally
friendly features to reduce energy and water consumption, and
minimize waste. The store will have a high reflectivity white roof to
reduce energy consumption, along with skylights for daylight
harvesting. A centralized Energy Management System will also be used
to monitor and control the heating, air conditioning, refrigeration
and lighting systems. Exterior building signage and refrigerated food
cases will use light emitting diodes (LEDs). Highly efficient and
low-flow water fixtures will reduce the water used by the store. The
stores will also operate recycling programs and promote sustainable
product purchases.

Walmart
operates 42 stores in the Inland Empire, including 13 general
merchandise stores, 18 Supercenters, four Neighborhood Markets and
seven Sam’s Club locations.

About
WalmartWal-Mart
Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) helps people around the world save money and
live better – anytime and anywhere – in retail stores, online and
through their mobile devices. Each week, more than 245 million
customers and members visit our more than 10,800 stores under 69
banners in 27 countries and e-commerce websites in 10 countries. With
fiscal year 2013 sales of approximately $466 billion, Walmart employs
more than 2.2 million associates worldwide. Walmart continues to be a
leader in sustainability, corporate philanthropy and employment
opportunity. Additional information about Walmart can be found by
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